Lillian Oberschlake is a current MA student at Temple University studying fashion, costume, and self-fashioning in Early Modern Venice. She is interested in how genders are defined and subverted through fashion manuals and opera costume design documents.  

She received her summa cum laude bachelors with honors in art history, classical literature, and digital art. During her undergraduate career, she received awards and grants including the Thompson Family and the Fisher scholarship. As a senior, she aided in the curation and promotion of a student-run exhibition. She also worked on a database to catalog resources for a Trinidad and Tobago study abroad program, for which she was awarded a grant from the Center for Undergraduate Research. In her free time, she also works as a commission artist.